To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.